If it's any consolation (????), we at my department of a large well-known company routinely abused any software licenses that we were able to. Unless the software policed its own license, such as checking if other copies of itself were installed on the network, or required a key, or was checked when a support call was placed, we were told to install what we needed when we needed it regardless of the license policies.
This apparently varied by low or mid-level manager: some followed the rules, several of mine openly flaunted them. Upper managers would never begin to claim to tolerate license piracy (this sentence was carefully crafted). I was led to believe I would be viewed as uncooperative if I did not flaunt the rules when there were no consequences to face.
Another principle of Democracy appears to be the right to continue to make gobs of money regardless of the needs of the market or the quality of the product, and to "give back" by kicking a small percentage of that money back to the elected officials who made it all possible.
Sue the state for making a decision? If you're going to die, die bold.
Evidence is emerging that use of clovis point technology was strictly limited to tribes and individuals who could pay periodic tribute to a cult of shamans located in the Pacific Northwest.
Stela have been decoded showing a large and round-headed cult leader foaming at the mouth and shouting "Clovis! Clovis! Clovis", whipping the masses into a frenzy, and paying off spear-makers to keep them from making spears without clovis points. They further cemented their status by periodically introducing pointless "improvements" in the clovis point - first obsidian, then flint, then other differences, and via their network forcing hunters to use their clovis points or starve. The points also grew enormously in size over time.
The technology's run came to an end as the points grew with each successive hunting season until the point was many times larger than the spear it was grafted onto, making it effectively worthless. The last clovis point technology, called "Clovis 9000 B.C.", took four men and an ox to launch at the wild turkey it was designed to bring down.
Conflicting evidence from about the same time shows that much of this technology may have been preceded or even discovered by tribes located further south on the coast.
There will continue to be a market for Sat radio as there continues to be a market for local broadcast radio. Your Tb of home-stored mp3's and movies won't tell you why people are meeting in town to discuss tonight's city council meeting, who died today, the status of rain, or what those fire engines were at 2 in the morning. They won't show you things you don't already know. Sure, you can get those things from the 'net in other ways, but many people like it this way, and the media is flexible to find new folks who like it in a slightly different way that it can accomodate.
Things don't die out as much as they thin out because of increased choices.
Some above have suggested turning it off, or turning off notifications. Fine, if that's what you want. The point is that these electronic leashes now provide you with the choice to be always connected, somewhat connected, or only connected when you want to be. How you use them is up to you, or up to the jerks that demand that you use them. With increased power comes increased responsibility. Users have options (unless your company has locked them down) to configure the things to be as annoying or as silent as you want. Those of us around you have to put up with the choices that you make. Be polite to us, because I always hate it when I have to tell someone that I thought their electronic behavior was really annoying while I was {listening to a seminar,attending a class,reading in a silent room, attending an important meeting}.
These things and the conversations they inspire are another argument for gun control (aren't there times when you wish you could just shoot the idiot talking in the back?).
As far as disregarding a subpoena, the article describes that he is protected under California state law, but not under federal law. The protest issues involve SF city police, which would cover him under CA state law. But he's being prosecuted by the feds, with the justification that since SF gets federal money to help pay for police material, the feds have an interest in the proceedings. The journalist contends that they are using their position to stifle his speech since his reports are critical of authorities. The federal prosecutor also contends that he is "not a real journalist" (with various arguments). If they continue with this argument, it brings up the potential for government-licensed journalism and the government-licensed or authorized news that follows from it, and the elimination of free, critical dissent that has been something basic to being an American since, oh, before there was a United States.
I feel as a citizen of the USA that I'm being systematically stripped of the freedoms I was told I had growing up, and driven to survive in a corporate-ruled gulag where nothing has legal value except the opportunity for organizations beyond my control to make greater amounts of money. It's articles like this one that keep me feeling that way.
>>The assumption for this project is that you'll be able to find enough other sources of food to last you until the next harvest;
OK - so include several pallets of McDonald's gift certificates to keep everyone filled until the crops come in.
Come to think of it, just leave a printer for those gift certificates, and skip the seeds! Brilliant!
It's amusing to watch Mr. Bill complain of FUD, misrepresentation, and lies as he implies that Windows has been the greater source of innovation and is by far more secure ("Macs are fully exploited every single day. I challenge anyone to exploit Windows once a month.")
>>A good accountant can spend a little time looking over your previous taxes and asking you some questions in order to suggest to you strategies that will help you for this year...and should be available for quick questions throughout the year at no charge.
Yes, true. In the past when I had some questions and felt unsure of answers I had found, I would consult one. I was never told that I had missed something, and so my self-assurance was reinforced. I think I would still do that, still consult someone if I felt unsure, and I also recommend it. But if you're not doing anything new, and you're paying attention, you should be able to do it yourself. Anyone who can work through a series of half-baked customer requirements and program a useful product can get through the tax process, and better understand it when you do.
Most questions seem to come during the year - What's the tax implications if I sell this? Are they taking enough out of my paycheck? Am I into Alternative Minimum Tax, or can I get a useful deduction if I do this? What are all these business rules? etc. I guess I have most of the answers myself now, which is the point of doing it myself and focusing.
And if you saw my record keeping, you'd know that gathering/filtering the documents is in fact the hard part.
I agree that asking for help from an accountant is useful and often vital.
Having an accountant do my taxes is great for getting my taxes done this year I agree. But it doesn't teach me enough about the process to help me make decisions throughout the following year. Doing it myself keeps me informed of what is being taxed and how. Having a program helps reduce the time it takes to enter the data and make the calculations and find help and forms when I need them. I can get into it as much as I need to (which you might say is true for an accountant too), I have all the records and processes when I need to consult them later to see what the tax implications are of doing or not doing something, etc. Plus to use an accountant I have to assemble all my documentation myself anyway (all the taxable records) which is a major part of the tax effort - once I got all my papers the rest is not so bad.
Given that, I use one of the major programs, and I don't believe it matters much which you use.
Palm is a small Co. with small resources. They support Hotsync as a personal user-maintained utility. At my place, we bought a couple hundred Palm V's for users, but got a couple thousand Palm XX brought in from home (and installed mostly by users themselves after architecting security and centrally distributing a generic hotsync package that - what a concept - worked for nearly all versions of PalmOS, even on devices not made by Palm). I've read that the proportions held elsewhere for PDAs years ago - many more users bought them themselves than were given them by their paymasters. Keeping it simple and user-focused was probably the better place to put resources.
I don't know how this is playing out in the phone/berry environment these days.
The stand-alone PDA is dead as confirmed by industry sales numbers - units sold have been declining for years. But the PDA-in-your-phone, aka smartphone, continues to grow. As Palm has said, "The killer app for handhelds is voice."
So what we're talking about is the OS that runs on the smartphone and not the standalone calender/address book thingy. And Palm OS still has a lot going for it there: simplicity of use, simple and free dev tools, backwards compatibility, many thousands of apps; weighed against deficiencies like memory support, limited Palm Co. resources, limited resources on the device, I'm sure you can add to this list.
As a comparison, how many individuals have ever signed up to write Windows Mobile apps (you can pick a version - they're not really compatible with each other - or sum them up if you want to), and why do you think the disparity is so great?
Children of wealthy parents more often live in a home environment that rewards and encourages learning, that can pay for tutors and outside learning experience (music, dance, languages, etc.). They more often come to school rested and fed.
They less often endure school along with kids whose family is being evicted from their home, or is breaking up, or who have parents/caregivers who abuse/humiliate them for reading or doing their homework, or who are drug/alchohol dependent. And of course they are less likely themselves to be those kids.
Private school teachers often make considerably more money than public school teachers - private schools can pick from the better ones. I have been to my share of public school teachers lounges that look like bus station waiting rooms.
Homework assignments generally consist of months of multimedia explanation and details of how good the assignment work is going to be and how it's going to revolutionize learning. Then sometime during the following summer vacation the student will turn in a signed partial copy of a popular newspaper or magazine article.
I can't wait for their next album, based on patterns in the Billboard Hot 100, numerical values of translated words in several of the Gnostic Gospels, and the 1200th - 3600th digits of pi.
Its tentatively titled "Rks)*;s j1Fno-QQ lspw%3-sl;0".
There's a big difference between being based on numbers, and finding those numerical patterns in an existing structure.
Is the western musical scale created from its numerical relationships, or vice-versa?
Were all the numberical relationships built into the pyramids, or were many of them discovered by losers with nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon (note: I am typing here too)?
Do I write my english text so that the letter e occurs most frequently, or is that a result often found after the fact?
The problem is perception, not security. Therefore they should appoint a perception czar.
The CPO will be in charge of perception. Over time, they will get better. The third CPO (C3PO) will be in charge of, well, what you perceive they are in charge of is part of their job.
The US Navy has had the entire North Atlantic and a lot of the Pacific too completely mapped with underwater sonobuoys that are in effect a sensitive grid of networked microphones underwater. The network has been there at least since the 1960's. Its purpose was to detect and track Soviet ballistic and attack submarines. I read that it was very effective - that the Russians could not send a sub out of their northwestern ports into the world without the US knowing which one and where it was. I'd be surprised if someone has NOT gotten a grant to see if these could be used to interpret sound generated underwater by earthquakes, and as a result track earthquake activity with them.
Does anyone know if this grid can work this way?
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If it's any consolation (????), we at my department of a large well-known company routinely abused any software licenses that we were able to.
Unless the software policed its own license, such as checking if other copies of itself were installed on the network, or required a key, or was checked when a support call was placed, we were told to install what we needed when we needed it regardless of the license policies.
This apparently varied by low or mid-level manager: some followed the rules, several of mine openly flaunted them. Upper managers would never begin to claim to tolerate license piracy (this sentence was carefully crafted).
I was led to believe I would be viewed as uncooperative if I did not flaunt the rules when there were no consequences to face.
Is this a surprise?
Maybe the title should say "we do it too".
Let's terraform the earth first.
Another principle of Democracy appears to be the right to continue to make gobs of money regardless of the needs of the market or the quality of the product, and to "give back" by kicking a small percentage of that money back to the elected officials who made it all possible.
Sue the state for making a decision? If you're going to die, die bold.
>>the boston police should be happy about this
Why, does it also detect portable lighting displays?
Evidence is emerging that use of clovis point technology was strictly limited to tribes and individuals who could pay periodic tribute to a cult of shamans located in the Pacific Northwest.
Stela have been decoded showing a large and round-headed cult leader foaming at the mouth and shouting "Clovis! Clovis! Clovis", whipping the masses into a frenzy, and paying off spear-makers to keep them from making spears without clovis points.
They further cemented their status by periodically introducing pointless "improvements" in the clovis point - first obsidian, then flint, then other differences, and via their network forcing hunters to use their clovis points or starve. The points also grew enormously in size over time.
The technology's run came to an end as the points grew with each successive hunting season until the point was many times larger than the spear it was grafted onto, making it effectively worthless. The last clovis point technology, called "Clovis 9000 B.C.", took four men and an ox to launch at the wild turkey it was designed to bring down.
Conflicting evidence from about the same time shows that much of this technology may have been preceded or even discovered by tribes located further south on the coast.
There will continue to be a market for Sat radio as there continues to be a market for local broadcast radio. Your Tb of home-stored mp3's and movies won't tell you why people are meeting in town to discuss tonight's city council meeting, who died today, the status of rain, or what those fire engines were at 2 in the morning. They won't show you things you don't already know. Sure, you can get those things from the 'net in other ways, but many people like it this way, and the media is flexible to find new folks who like it in a slightly different way that it can accomodate.
Things don't die out as much as they thin out because of increased choices.
Some above have suggested turning it off, or turning off notifications. Fine, if that's what you want.
The point is that these electronic leashes now provide you with the choice to be always connected, somewhat connected, or only connected when you want to be. How you use them is up to you, or up to the jerks that demand that you use them. With increased power comes increased responsibility.
Users have options (unless your company has locked them down) to configure the things to be as annoying or as silent as you want.
Those of us around you have to put up with the choices that you make. Be polite to us, because I always hate it when I have to tell someone that I thought their electronic behavior was really annoying while I was {listening to a seminar,attending a class,reading in a silent room, attending an important meeting}.
These things and the conversations they inspire are another argument for gun control (aren't there times when you wish you could just shoot the idiot talking in the back?).
I thought it was:
"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy"
As far as disregarding a subpoena, the article describes that he is protected under California state law, but not under federal law.
The protest issues involve SF city police, which would cover him under CA state law.
But he's being prosecuted by the feds, with the justification that since SF gets federal money to help pay for police material, the feds have an interest in the proceedings.
The journalist contends that they are using their position to stifle his speech since his reports are critical of authorities.
The federal prosecutor also contends that he is "not a real journalist" (with various arguments).
If they continue with this argument, it brings up the potential for government-licensed journalism and the government-licensed or authorized news that follows from it, and the elimination of free, critical dissent that has been something basic to being an American since, oh, before there was a United States.
I feel as a citizen of the USA that I'm being systematically stripped of the freedoms I was told I had growing up, and driven to survive in a corporate-ruled gulag where nothing has legal value except the opportunity for organizations beyond my control to make greater amounts of money. It's articles like this one that keep me feeling that way.
>>The assumption for this project is that you'll be able to find enough other sources of food to last you until the next harvest; OK - so include several pallets of McDonald's gift certificates to keep everyone filled until the crops come in. Come to think of it, just leave a printer for those gift certificates, and skip the seeds! Brilliant!
It's amusing to watch Mr. Bill complain of FUD, misrepresentation, and lies as he implies that Windows has been the greater source of innovation and is by far more secure ("Macs are fully exploited every single day. I challenge anyone to exploit Windows once a month.")
I can store a copy of the Declaration of Independence?
So it's apparently useless.
It should store a copy of the Bill of Rights - I think we're going to need to restore that sometime in the future.
>>A good accountant can spend a little time looking over your previous taxes and asking you some questions in order to suggest to you strategies that will help you for this year...and should be available for quick questions throughout the year at no charge.
Yes, true. In the past when I had some questions and felt unsure of answers I had found, I would consult one. I was never told that I had missed something, and so my self-assurance was reinforced.
I think I would still do that, still consult someone if I felt unsure, and I also recommend it. But if you're not doing anything new, and you're paying attention, you should be able to do it yourself.
Anyone who can work through a series of half-baked customer requirements and program a useful product can get through the tax process, and better understand it when you do.
Most questions seem to come during the year - What's the tax implications if I sell this? Are they taking enough out of my paycheck? Am I into Alternative Minimum Tax, or can I get a useful deduction if I do this? What are all these business rules? etc.
I guess I have most of the answers myself now, which is the point of doing it myself and focusing.
And if you saw my record keeping, you'd know that gathering/filtering the documents is in fact the hard part.
I agree that asking for help from an accountant is useful and often vital.
Having an accountant do my taxes is great for getting my taxes done this year I agree. But it doesn't teach me enough about the process to help me make decisions throughout the following year.
Doing it myself keeps me informed of what is being taxed and how.
Having a program helps reduce the time it takes to enter the data and make the calculations and find help and forms when I need them. I can get into it as much as I need to (which you might say is true for an accountant too), I have all the records and processes when I need to consult them later to see what the tax implications are of doing or not doing something, etc.
Plus to use an accountant I have to assemble all my documentation myself anyway (all the taxable records) which is a major part of the tax effort - once I got all my papers the rest is not so bad.
Given that, I use one of the major programs, and I don't believe it matters much which you use.
Palm is a small Co. with small resources. They support Hotsync as a personal user-maintained utility. At my place, we bought a couple hundred Palm V's for users, but got a couple thousand Palm XX brought in from home (and installed mostly by users themselves after architecting security and centrally distributing a generic hotsync package that - what a concept - worked for nearly all versions of PalmOS, even on devices not made by Palm). I've read that the proportions held elsewhere for PDAs years ago - many more users bought them themselves than were given them by their paymasters. Keeping it simple and user-focused was probably the better place to put resources.
I don't know how this is playing out in the phone/berry environment these days.
The stand-alone PDA is dead as confirmed by industry sales numbers - units sold have been declining for years.
But the PDA-in-your-phone, aka smartphone, continues to grow. As Palm has said, "The killer app for handhelds is voice."
So what we're talking about is the OS that runs on the smartphone and not the standalone calender/address book thingy.
And Palm OS still has a lot going for it there: simplicity of use, simple and free dev tools, backwards compatibility, many thousands of apps; weighed against deficiencies like memory support, limited Palm Co. resources, limited resources on the device, I'm sure you can add to this list.
As a comparison, how many individuals have ever signed up to write Windows Mobile apps (you can pick a version - they're not really compatible with each other - or sum them up if you want to), and why do you think the disparity is so great?
How many nukes do we have to set off so that the effects of nuclear winter offset global warming? Inquiring minds want to know.
Smoke 'em out if they got you.
Children of wealthy parents more often live in a home environment that rewards and encourages learning, that can pay for tutors and outside learning experience (music, dance, languages, etc.). They more often come to school rested and fed.
They less often endure school along with kids whose family is being evicted from their home, or is breaking up, or who have parents/caregivers who abuse/humiliate them for reading or doing their homework, or who are drug/alchohol dependent. And of course they are less likely themselves to be those kids.
Private school teachers often make considerably more money than public school teachers - private schools can pick from the better ones. I have been to my share of public school teachers lounges that look like bus station waiting rooms.
Homework assignments generally consist of months of multimedia explanation and details of how good the assignment work is going to be and how it's going to revolutionize learning. Then sometime during the following summer vacation the student will turn in a signed partial copy of a popular newspaper or magazine article.
"The hope here is to assist couples who are having difficulties with conception."
Please. A bottle of wine, 2 joints and a video will get you much further than mouse dna.
I can't wait for their next album, based on patterns in the Billboard Hot 100, numerical values of translated words in several of the Gnostic Gospels, and the 1200th - 3600th digits of pi.
Its tentatively titled "Rks)*;s j1Fno-QQ lspw%3-sl;0".
There's a big difference between being based on numbers, and finding those numerical patterns in an existing structure.
Is the western musical scale created from its numerical relationships, or vice-versa?
Were all the numberical relationships built into the pyramids, or were many of them discovered by losers with nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon (note: I am typing here too)?
Do I write my english text so that the letter e occurs most frequently, or is that a result often found after the fact?
You decide! (Isn't democracy great?)
The problem is perception, not security.
Therefore they should appoint a perception czar.
The CPO will be in charge of perception. Over time, they will get better.
The third CPO (C3PO) will be in charge of, well, what you perceive they are in charge of is part of their job.
The US Navy has had the entire North Atlantic and a lot of the Pacific too completely mapped with underwater sonobuoys that are in effect a sensitive grid of networked microphones underwater. The network has been there at least since the 1960's. Its purpose was to detect and track Soviet ballistic and attack submarines. I read that it was very effective - that the Russians could not send a sub out of their northwestern ports into the world without the US knowing which one and where it was. I'd be surprised if someone has NOT gotten a grant to see if these could be used to interpret sound generated underwater by earthquakes, and as a result track earthquake activity with them. Does anyone know if this grid can work this way?